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monizing; also, a sermon; a public religious discourse; serious, earnest advice. Milner. Preaching cross, a cross, sometimes surmounting a pulpit, erected out of doors to designate a preaching place. -- Preaching friars. See Dominican.

A preacher; -- so called in contempt. [Obs.] Howell.

A religious harangue; a sermon; -- used derogatively. Shak.

A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea. L'Estrange.

Adultery. [Obs.]

A traitor; a cheat. [Obs.] Treacher and coward both. Beau. & Fl.

Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless. Loyal father of a treacherous son. Shak. The treacherous smile, a mask for secret hate. Cowper.

Violation of allegiance or of faith and confidence; treasonable or perfidious conduct; perfidy; treason.

A traitor. [Obs.] "Treachour full of false despite." Spenser.

To undo or overthrow by preaching. [R.] De Foe.

ouse; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad. Evelyn.

transitions from one subject to another; unconnected. The abrupt style, which hath many breaches. B. Jonson.

The act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; -- applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.

rize; to value. Now used only in the passive. "I account of her beauty." Shak. Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century. Canon Robinson.

n. The very acme and pitch of life for epic poetry. Pope. The moment when a certain power reaches the acme of its supremacy. I. Taylor.

A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.

or." Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to outwit.

ly. -- One after another, successively. -- To be after, to be in pursuit of in order to reach or get; as, he is after money.

A vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.